iOS 6 Bugs, Grumbles, Workarounds and Solutions

After a disappointing experience, I thought I'd fire up a general purpose thread to discuss problem and solutions.

I had a frustrating time using turn-by-turn in Maps in my car, I was getting no audio over Bluetooth as I would expect. I found Maps will only work over Bluetooth IF I have set the input source for the stereo to Bluetooth Audio. So basically, I can't listen to the radio or a CD when doing turn-by-turn, ONLY to the Music app on the iPhone, or perhaps other audio apps on the iPhone. I would expect it to work like the phone or Siri over Bluetooth, where it just interrupts whatever is playing (or not playing for that matter) on the stereo and then give the verbal prompt.

I like iCloud Tabs. We've had it for Chrome for a while now but I use Safari more so it's a nice addition.

Maps...well, Maps is a whole other discussion. I need to time to evaluate.

Is anybody else getting the slow low-to-full illumination when you first turn on the phone? Not opinion of that but I wasn't expecting it.

I don't get Passbook. I have a Starbucks dedicated app for my cards. Can I transfer the cards to Passbook? How do I add discount cards? Are they supposed to be in the iTunes store? Why does it not connect when I hit that button? Many questions...

I don't get Passbook. I have a Starbucks dedicated app for my cards. Can I transfer the cards to Passbook? How do I add discount cards? Are they supposed to be in the iTunes store? Why does it not connect when I hit that button? Many questions...

I think part of that is that the apps that were demoed with Passbook haven't actually been updated with Passbook yet. Like the Starbucks one.

The other thing is that you can get Passes in your email, which might be the more popular way to do it. Apple's site is really vague about how you get passes, and just concentrates on how you use them.

My brief time with Maps has been a massive disappointment. While the app itself seems fine, the app data for me (London, England) is terribly out of date, compared to Google or Bing. I'll need more time to evaluate it, but there's a ton of local places that are missing, out of date, or just wrong. I hope there's a Google Maps app in the App Store very soon (though I doubt that very much).

Google maps was better and more readable without having to zoom in forever. Hoping Google makes an app soon.

I heard complaints about Bluetooth streaming stuttering (happened when iOS 5 was in beta as well). If it happens when I test I'm going to be pissed. I use it a lot.

It appears the Wifi+Cellular option is now gone from the GM release, which just plain sucks. I was excited since around campus I am always grabbing onto 1 bar of our wireless walking outside and it kills all Internet connectivity. Grr.

Otherwise everything's here, but I do admit I'm a bit bored. I didn't realize how thin this update kind of is for the new features stuff until I got it. At least ill have new hardware soon and Siri to play with.

I just turned Match back on and... I can't delete local files again. This makes Match as good as useless to me, since its entire appeal so far has been on-the-go (away from iTunes on Mac) management of what's stored on my phone.

More companies not having Passbook ready to go today was slightly disappointing. Okay, really disappointing as I while I don't travel a lot, I am excited to entire in my flight info for a few upcoming trips. But...that all has to wait for a while.

There are a few "hmmm" things I've noticed as well. Shuffle/repeat indicators are now orange in the music app instead of blue. Also, the title bar switches to blue in messages, but not other apps like safari.

Weirdness abounds!I restored to a backup after installing ios6. I try and join my home wireless (airport extreme), and when I join, it brings up apple.com like it wants me to login to it, but I don't have that function enabled on my airport extreme. Just started after I upgraded. No idea what to do here.

Wifi is borked on my iPhone 4S. After connecting to my router it immediately disconnects and then displays a page with a title of "Log In" at http://www.apple.com. WTF over. Googleing around I'm not the only one with this issue.

Weirdness abounds!I restored to a backup after installing ios6. I try and join my home wireless (airport extreme), and when I join, it brings up apple.com like it wants me to login to it, but I don't have that function enabled on my airport extreme. Just started after I upgraded. No idea what to do here.

Mine just started doing the same thing (upgraded last week, and has been working fine since). The Apple.com page that it's trying to load is 404ing, which is probably confusing whatever bit is responsible for deciding to present the login page.

Whatever's going on, it sucks, because my phone won't work on WiFi until they get this fixed.

Weirdness abounds!I restored to a backup after installing ios6. I try and join my home wireless (airport extreme), and when I join, it brings up apple.com like it wants me to login to it, but I don't have that function enabled on my airport extreme. Just started after I upgraded. No idea what to do here.

Ooh, this might explain what my iPad is trying to do, even on a non-Airport (DLink) wireless network. It was rock solid before the update, now I'm lucky if it will stay connected long enough to load a page before I get that stupid 404 thing.

Edit - and it won't auto-join my network anymore, either.

Edit again - come to think of it, this did all start after I set up an Airport Express network temporarily in preparation for traveling next week.

Dammit, it did break my iPhone too, on an Airport network - keeps trying to go to www.Apple.com for a login, then gets a 404.

Weirdness abounds!I restored to a backup after installing ios6. I try and join my home wireless (airport extreme), and when I join, it brings up apple.com like it wants me to login to it, but I don't have that function enabled on my airport extreme. Just started after I upgraded. No idea what to do here.

Same here. Thread at ASC. Did my update OTA, so no idea how I can restore to 5.1.1 without losing anything.

The wifi bork seems to be related to Apple's captive portal checking (which was an issue with Mountain Lion as well, for me at least). Update finished, and unable to connect because it thinks I need to log in. Hopefully some tech updates the site soon.

So I had the same WiFi problem with getting an apple.com 404 page and not connecting to WiFi. I chose "Forget this Network", selected the WiFi access point again, and entered the password. I then got the apple.com 404 page again but this time I remained connected to WiFi. Maybe this will also work for others?

What's funny is that if you keep going on after that broken link through the Apple site, you can access the rest of the Internet. Or at least the rest of Apple's site.

Mine won't, it kills the whole WiFi connection.

Oh look, they appear to have fixed it - now I got a page with a very tiny "success" instead of the 404. May or may not be related to setting HTTP Proxy to "Auto" then back to "off" in the preferences for the network.

Oh look, they appear to have fixed it - now I got a page with a very tiny "success" instead of the 404. May or may not be related to setting HTTP Proxy to "Auto" then back to "off" in the preferences for the network.

You're a super genius. I changed the HTTP Proxy to "Auto" then back to "Off" and I can connect now.

Oh look, they appear to have fixed it - now I got a page with a very tiny "success" instead of the 404. May or may not be related to setting HTTP Proxy to "Auto" then back to "off" in the preferences for the network.

You're a super genius. I changed the HTTP Proxy to "Auto" then back to "Off" and I can connect now.

Thanks. Stolen from the link Entegy posted, and probably timed right along with Apple fixing it.

Now if only the Passbook would start working instead of giving me a stupid "Cannot connect to iTunes Store" error on my phone.

They fixed one of my 4-year iOS gripes (per-account Mail signatures) but not the other: there is still no Shuffle by Album in Music, despite my constant feedback every time a new release has come out since 2008. This feature was in the original iPods!

Music.app on the iPhone (4) is a terrific pile of shite. I can't delete local files with a swipe (or at all, as far as I can find), and the new playback controls look TERRIBLE.

Meh. I'm neutral on the new controls and I think it'll grow on me by this weekend. As for iTunes and deleting individual songs, the iOS 6 Macworld review says this:

Macworld iOS 6 Review wrote:

The other major different in iOS 6 concerns iTunes Match users: You can no longer download or delete individual tracks from your music library.[...]When it comes to deleting tracks, however, it’s an all or nothing proposition: You can remove all your local music by going to Settings -> General -> Usage -> Music and swiping to delete the items there.

I can see this becoming a HUGE problem for me with my 16GB iPad and 16GB iPhone 5, especially if I'm on the road with the iPhone and I need extra space for an app. I'd have to delete all the music and re-download the playlists I want, wasting my time and unnecessary bandwidth that AT&T would love to charge me extra if I went over.

My other issues with iOS 6 so far:

1. OTA update caused some glitch with Mail.app and notifications. I had errors with sending emails (SMTP errors kept popping up) and notifications for many apps were in the Notification Center with badges/sounds/banners turned off. I did a complete reset and restored from my Mac and everything was back to normal.

2. Minor gripe. I don't like the blue color of the status bar when I enter things like Settings.

Lots of reports of "bricking." Happened to me. It would pop up that it would have to restore, would spend 10 minutes restoring, reboot and then repeat. However going into DFU mode fixes it. I bet most people this happens to don't know what DFU mode is let alone how to go into it.

I'm sure I will have complaints about the maps app I haven't used it yet.

What's bugging me right now is podcasts. I am a faithful listener of the PBS newshour podcast, which I used to be able to listen to directly from the music app. I never much liked the podcast app. But now my phone no longer lets me listen to podcasts in the music app and requires me to use the podcasts app. But when I tried to play a news hour podcast did not work; no sound at all. Anyone else having this problem?